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- Title
Erotic Mourning and Post-traumatic Sexual Desire.
- Authors
ASHTOR, Gila G.
- Abstract
A literary criticism of the book "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers is presented. It explores the concept of post-traumatic sexual desire as used in Eggers' memoir and suggests that it constitutes what the author calls radical mourning. Topics discussed include hypersexual anxiety, breathing, and exhaustion.
- Subjects
HEARTBREAKING Work of Staggering Genius, A (Book); EGGERS, Dave, 1970-; BEREAVEMENT in literature; DESIRE in literature; RESPIRATION in literature; POST-traumatic stress; MEMOIRS
- Publication
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature & Culture: A Web Journal, 2010, Vol 12, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1481-4374
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.7771/1481-4374.1543